sixstop wrote:Did anyone get the message on KAzaa networks from the RIAA urging you to stop stealing music?
Citing a February 10 article from Business Week, Mills comments, “It's [got] a fascinating statistic chart of retail music sales. In 2002, there was a downturn of 8.5 percent from 2001. But book sales were also down, as well as theme park attendance, advertising revenues, baseball — we could go on and on. Even at 2002's declined level, 20 percent more CDs were sold than in 1998, back before CD burning, downloading, MP3 and all the woes of the labels.
“What that means to me,” he continues, “is perspective. The late 1990s were boom years for the economy in general. Now we're in a recession, with unemployment at a nine-year high. Retail sales are down overall, and there's a giant restructuring going on. The music industry is essentially owned by five companies. At least two of the companies — AOL Time Warner and Vivendi Universal — are in financial difficulty, not because of their music divisions but because of the rest of their companies. And Sony is affected by the terrible Japanese economy, where the stock market just hit a 20-year low.”
Mills points to the massive sales of rapper 50 Cent's debut release, along with Eminem's recent multi-Platinum CD, as examples that music retailing is far from dead. “The demographic most likely to download music for free is males 16 to 20,” he notes. “That's also the demographic that's bought 12 million Eminem CDs, a good measure in any year! There's a plethora of fresh, young talent selling multi-Platinum, whether it be Avril Lavigne, Pink, Michelle Branch or Norah Jones. And look at how the older generation is selling: Santana, O Brother, Elvis, The Beatles and Paul McCartney.”
Jace Tsunami wrote:CD-Rs are used for so much more than just music tho, you have to credit them that much. And if they are being used for music, you have to look at mix CD values, all of it's not nessicarly pirated.
On the issue of pirating music tho, I'm really not for it at all. I hate how there are people that just get music for free from a whole bunch of respectable artists, and then just never pay anything to support them.
However, at the same time, i'm kinda glad I can do it myself. Sometimes I lack the appropriate funds to BUY a CD so I have to pirate it. But sadly, I'm one of the few people in our fine little nation that will go back and pay for a copy of the actual album later, when I have money.
http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members ... hp?v=87528Pwolf wrote:that music was way to "happy" for an anime as dramatic as the kenshin ova... your an evil evil person![]()
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